Sister Annamaria Roccaro
Names: Sister Annamaria RoccaroAmerieSister RoccaroAnnamaria Roccarothe nunSisterAnnamariaSister AmerieReverend Sisterma SoeurSoeur AmerieAmerie-sanAmerie RoccaroSister Amerie RoccaroAmerie-chanthe priestGood Shepherd
First appears in Book 1: The Many-Colored Land, chapter 8 (7)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: The Many-Colored Land
- Ch 8Annamaria is a 37-year-old nun who has worked at the Hospice for fifteen years and is burnt out, with a faith that has shriveled.
- Ch 8She left her order with her superiors' agreement, having been refused by contemplative monasteries, and wants to live as a solitary mystic in Exile.
- Ch 17Amerie plans to become an anchoress, a religious hermit, in the Pliocene, reviving the Latin Divine Office, the Mass, penance, meditation and the Rosary.
- Ch 17Amerie decides sandals and the white doeskin habit are unsuitable for the Pliocene, and prefers buskins or boots and homespun.
- Ch 18The Nun was a medic and psychological counselor and plans to retire to a hermitage in the Pliocene.
- Ch 19Amerie is a nun and medic who vows to help the suffering and intends to try to help Felice.
- Ch 20A sturdy nun who brings a large painting of Saint Sebastian and prays the Salve Regina as she is translated.
- Ch 25Amerie is a nun and consecrated virgin; she planned to escape her locked room by cutting the window grille with a cord-saw.
- Ch 25Amerie tested very low on metafaculties, scoring plus 3.5 in creativity, but sensed Epone's tormented mind and was overwhelmed by it.
- Ch 26Amerie treats Richard with drugs from her minidoser, which the captors left her; she says the collars protect guards from drugging.
- Ch 26Amerie and Felice learned from Epone about the exotics' origins and reproductive predicament; they expect to be made broodmares.
- Ch 29Amerie is a nun who acts as caregiver; she drugged Richard so he could ride with the caravan and asks him to find the polestar.
- Ch 31Painful chaliko ride reawakens memories of a childhood Grand Canyon mule ride; she realizes she has always tried to carry everyone's load, giving her belated insight into why she came to Exile.
- Ch 31Amerie is a nun who chants Latin psalms and offices from sleep-learning; she agrees to say a votive Mass for the fort's Catholics despite exhaustion.
- Ch 31As a child she was called Annamaria; her parents and two little brothers are now dead.
- Ch 33Amerie, once Annamaria, feels guilt at surviving her family, who died in a starship accident while she healed from a broken leg.
- Ch 33Amerie realizes her ministry to the dying and her Exile hermitage both stemmed from buried guilt, but Claude insists the good she did was real.
- Ch 35Amerie sedated Felice, and reasoned that iron may interfere with a Tanu's torc, explaining why a steel knife killed Epone when other wounds did not.
- Ch 35Amerie shows a new intensity, declaring that Pliocene Earth is humanity's planet and that in six million years humans will be here and the Tanu will not.
- Ch 35Amerie is a nun who has taken a vow of renunciation, yet pledges to help Felice and is shaken by Felice's advances.
- Ch 35Amerie flees Felice's advances, falls and reopens the scabbed cuts on her hands, then deliberately digs her nails into her palms.
- Ch 37Amerie falls from the decamole bridge into the rapids, nearly drowns, and suffers a broken left humerus. She is feverish afterward and her pack of medical supplies is lost.
- Ch 37Amerie is a nun who carries a Mass kit and offers Mass of Thanksgiving after the sabertooth encounter; she broods over her guilts.
- Ch 39Torcless nun and doctor; suggests iron chisels might remove gray torcs by shorting the link between wearer and slave circuitry.
- Ch 39Amerie is told to stay and recover, then be taken to Hidden Springs to live in Madame's cottage as healer.
- Ch 44Amerie is a nun and the only doctor in the Lowlife world; she cured many villagers and was elected to the Steering Committee.
- Ch 44Burke refuses her request to accompany the fighters in battle, since she is irreplaceable and must preserve medical knowledge for the future.
- Ch 44Amerie raises the matter of the second phase of Madame's plan; she is a nun and newcomer who tends Burke's wounded leg.
- Ch 45Amerie can give Martha proper medical care back at the village.
- Ch 47A nun and physician who found purpose among the Hidden Springs people instead of becoming a hermit; she spots the returning aircraft by the high-circling bird.
- Ch 49A nun who tried to stop Richard and watched the flyer vanish into the sky.
Book 2: The Golden Torc
- Ch 17Amerie will travel south with Madame's expedition and prescribed drainage exercises for her lungs.
- Ch 18Amerie is a nun who keeps a pet wildcat, Deej, and blesses the farewell supper.
- Ch 20Amerie is a nun and doctor disguised as a gray-torc serving woman. Felice insists she go with the strike-force.
- Ch 21Amerie leads a service at the campfire at nightfall, using King David's prayer for victory, to marry Claude and Angélique.
- Ch 24Amerie is a nun and doctor who tends Harry's drugs and refuses Felice's sexual advances, citing her religious commitment.
- Ch 24Amerie says she loves Felice and prays for her, urging her to draw strength from the Mind of the universe.
- Ch 24Amerie enters the wheelhouse with the Indian Chief and asks Felice to take the boat down.
- Ch 28Amerie, a non-meta human saboteur, is badly wounded in the battle but survives and is taken prisoner with a gray torc.
- Ch 33Amerie, with Peo and Basil, is terribly wounded and slated to be burned in the life-offering in four days.
- Ch 34Amerie, a nun with suppurating burns, is helpless and unable to speak by the tenth day of imprisonment.
- Ch 38Amerie, Elizabeth's friend and last of her original group, must support her through her adjustment as friend and confessor.
- Ch 40Amerie tried to rush out when the wave hit but was held by Chief Burke; Basil, a former don, prayed in Latin.
- Ch 41Sister Amerie was healed by an exotic woman and brought to Elizabeth with the message about a true choice.
Book 3: The Nonborn King
- Ch 6Amerie is a torcless nun, priest and doctor who loved Felice; she hears Elizabeth's confession using a violet ribbon and ancient formula.
- Ch 20Amerie refuses to leave the refugees, sensing a mission, and is to be dropped off at Hidden Springs afterward.
- Ch 26Sister Amerie helped escort nearly a thousand rough bareneck refugees to Nionel on Elizabeth's instruction.
- Ch 30Sister Amerie tried to save Felice's soul; her brain is used as the example of a normal mental structure.
- Ch 33Amerie is a nun who celebrates Mass and has medical training; she was hailed as a hero of the Lowlife liberation and returns to Hidden Springs exhausted.
- Ch 33Amerie names the kittens Tars Tarkas, Carthoris and Edgar, and Kawai gives her Madame's bedroom as she returns home.
- Ch 35Amerie is a priest who has renounced her body as a gift to God and refuses Felice.
- Ch 35Amerie is a priest and doctor who serves a community of people who need her, and she says she belongs with them.
- Ch 35Amerie admits she loves Felice more than her flock but chooses not to consummate that love.
- Ch 35Amerie says she cannot help being afraid of people like Felice, just as she cannot help loving her.
Book 4: The Adversary
- Ch 5A priest who met Anatoly in the Castle Gateway refugee camp and helped conceive the mission; she had previously described the lodge to him.
- Ch 28Amerie sent Brother Anatoly to Marc and Elizabeth.
Connections
- friend ofClaude Majewskigrew close while caring for his dying wife
- member ofOregon Cascade Hospiceworked there fifteen years
- member ofGroup Green
- related toFelice Landrycamp partners; Felice proposes to protect her as huntress
- friend ofFelice LandryAmerie loves Felice but refuses a sexual relationship
- friend ofStein Oleson
- ally ofRichard Voorhees
- ally ofClaude Majewski
- partner ofFelice LandryFelice pursues Amerie, who resists because of her vow
- ally ofFelice Landry
- member ofSteering Committee
- related toDejahpet cat living at her cottageowner of pet wildcat
- related toMarthaexpected to provide medical care
- friend ofOld Man Kawai
- ally ofMadame Guderian
- friend ofBasil Wimborne
- friend ofElizabeth Orme
- ally ofPeopeo Moxmox Burke
- ally ofElizabeth Orme
- family ofOld Man Kawaitreats her as a dearest daughter
- enemy ofFelice LandryFelice killed Amerie
- ally ofBrother Anatoly GorchakovSent by Amerie
- related toBrother Anatoly Gorchakovsent by her as Elizabeth's spiritual adviser
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 8Death of Genevieve Logan
Genevieve dies at the Hospice. Sister Roccaro gives last rites, and Claude turns off the machines and holds her hand until she is cold.
- Book 1 · Ch 8Annamaria reveals her plan; Claude offers to join her
On Mount Hood, Annamaria says she is leaving the order for Exile. Claude, healed of his grief, insists on accompanying her as protector, and she accepts.
- Book 1 · Ch 17Setting up the decamole cabin
Amerie and Felice practice with their survival gear in the simulated meadow, inflating a decamole cabin and furniture in under ten minutes.
- Book 1 · Ch 17Felice's confession and offer
Felice tells of her Acadie ring-hockey career and ostracism, admits maybe deliberately injuring players, and offers to protect Amerie. Amerie, upset, walks out; Felice says they need each other.
- Book 1 · Ch 19Last night terrace talk
After the last supper, Group Green's members discuss metapsychic powers, Pliocene coal and plans, Felice's unhappiness, and Aiken's Connecticut Yankee costume as a storm gathers over Lyon.
- Book 1 · Ch 20Second group translated into Exile
Aiken gets the device's diagram, then he, Claude, Annamaria and Elizabeth are translated. They arrive in a bright green-and-blue place and are helped out of the gate.
- Book 1 · Ch 25Amerie's escape thwarted
Amerie plans to cut through her window grille but Tully and Shubash enter, confiscate her cord-saw, and explain that Stein killed five guardians in a rampage.
- Book 1 · Ch 25Epone's metapsychic test and revelation
Epone tests Amerie with the coronet, then reveals the Tanu plan to use sterilized human women to bear Tanu children. Felice evades testing; both are to travel to Finiah.
- Book 1 · Ch 26Felice and Amerie join; Richard treated
Felice and Amerie are brought in, learn of the collars, share news of Epone and the broodmare fate, and Amerie drugs the catatonic Richard.
- Book 1 · Ch 29Rest stop and escape plan
At a fort, Felice, Amerie and Claude ask Richard to find the Pliocene polestar to support their escape plan. Richard grudgingly agrees.
- Book 1 · Ch 31Felice demonstrates control over the chalikos
Felice shows Amerie she can override the caravan's chalikos and make them break formation, then makes Amerie's mount copy hers, unnoticed by the guards.
- Book 1 · Ch 31Felice dominates an amphicyon
Felice compels an exhausted bear-dog to pace beside her chaliko, learning it is harder than controlling chalikos, and plans to use the technique at the end of travel days.
- Book 1 · Ch 31Arrival at the sleeping-stop fort
The caravan reaches a palisaded fort; Waldemar announces a rest until sunset, Amerie is asked to say Mass, and Epone takes Dougal away.
- Book 1 · Ch 33Firvulag illusion on the lake
Glowing spider shapes approach the caravan; Epone shatters them, and the soldiers say they were Firvulag.
- Book 1 · Ch 35Escape by lake
The freed prisoners split: most sail south with Basil toward the Jura, while Group Green's remnant sails east, then hides among marshy islands from Tanu catboats.
- Book 1 · Ch 35Yosh parts ways
Yosh refuses to join either party, gives the Green group tools and a bow, and stays to deal with Tat's body before heading north alone.
- Book 1 · Ch 35Trek into the highlands
The Green group lands in a swamp, passes a rhino herd, crosses the fort trail and climbs a ridge, where they camp and Felice spots the distant fort's fires.
- Book 1 · Ch 35Felice confronts Amerie
Felice reveals her secret plan to use the golden torc to free the slaves, Amerie apologizes for the group's silence and promises help, and Felice presses her for more than protection.
- Book 1 · Ch 35Amerie retreats
Rejecting Felice's advances, Amerie falls, reopens her hand wounds, and returns to the campfire as Felice laughs in the dark.
- Book 1 · Ch 37Sabertooth encounter
While resting in a stream pool, the group is approached by a sabertooth; Felice mentally calms it and it withdraws.
- Book 1 · Ch 37Amerie nearly drowns
Crossing the decamole bridge, Amerie's leg spasms and she falls into rapids. Felice rescues her, Claude revives her, and her arm is found broken.
- Book 1 · Ch 39Refuge in the Tree
Madame Guderian shelters Group Green's remnant with the Lowlives in the giant sequoia, explaining Firvulag help, torcs, and the exotics' nature, and proposes they join her plan.
- Book 1 · Ch 39Iron discovery
After Claude recounts Epone's death, Burke and Madame test the dagger theory; the group resolves to smelt iron weapons and try iron chisels on gray torcs.
- Book 1 · Ch 39Expedition chosen
Madame decides a seven-person party must set out immediately to find the Grave, leaving Amerie behind to heal the people.
- Book 1 · Ch 44Howler impostor killed
The false 'Sigmund', a female Howler, is exposed by Dejah and Khalid, who kills her with an iron lance-blank; Burke tests the others for more impostors.
- Book 1 · Ch 44Steering Committee meeting
The committee reviews preparations for the Finiah attack, adopts testing for shape-changers, and Burke denies Amerie's request to join the fighters.
- Book 1 · Ch 44Steering Committee meeting adjourns
Burke reports the attack timing, members raise new business on iron weapons, drink supplies and later phases of Madame's plan; strategy planning is tabled and the meeting adjourns.
- Book 1 · Ch 44Burke explains the Trumpet constellation
Outside, Burke shows Amerie the Trumpet constellation and explains its mouthpiece star dates the Grand Combat and links to the exotics' home galaxy.
- Book 1 · Ch 47Madame returns with the Spear
After a day of watching circling raptors, Amerie spots the high aircraft; it lands at Hidden Springs after dark, and villagers hide it with nets. Madame announces they have brought the Spear, and the bleeding Martha is rushed to Amerie.
- Book 1 · Ch 48Crash and rescue
The injured crew crash-land; Felice carries Claude out and Amerie assures him they will recover.
- Book 1 · Ch 49Richard departs with Martha
Richard takes Martha's body in the damaged flyer, discarding the Spear, and flies off despite Amerie's pleas.
- Book 2 · Ch 18Farewell supper and planning
On the eve of departure the eleven expedition members and Kawai dine at Madame's table, quarrel over who should go, and agree to bring the dead Spear south for Aiken Drum to recharge.
- Book 2 · Ch 18Deej entrusted to Kawai
Amerie asks Kawai to keep her wildcat Deej, and he promises to keep her safe until the group returns.
- Book 2 · Ch 20Council of war at the campfire
The party plans to send the torc-factory strike-force to Muriah by riverboat. Claude's alternative plan changes the time-gate action. They agree to try contacting Aiken Drum by farspeech through Elizabeth.
- Book 2 · Ch 21Wedding of Claude and Angélique
At night Amerie conducts a marriage service before the old pair go into hiding.
- Book 2 · Ch 24Harry revived and wrecked rapids run
The group revives torc-less Harry to pilot through rapids. Felice controls him, but panics at a falls; Harry breaks free and crashes the boat, which is damaged but survives.
- Book 2 · Ch 24Amerie and Felice at night watch
Felice propositions Amerie, who refuses and prays for her. Felice, shaken, regains some confidence. They then sight a Tanu Hunt searching for them across the river.
- Book 2 · Ch 24Felice flies the riverboat out of the eddy
Felice takes the wheel and lifts the boat with her PK, then flies it over the Rhône's terminal waterfall and the mist-covered lake. Amerie and the Indian Chief ask her to descend, and she does.
- Book 2 · Ch 27Aiken deceives Felice's group
Aiken meets the saboteurs in a cave, talks Felice out of attacking him, offers a false plan and map, and leaves with the Spear, then reports to Gomnol that they bought it.
- Book 2 · Ch 27Felice's group rejects Aiken's plan
With no word from Aiken, the saboteurs suspect a trap and decide to assault the torc factory that night by a different route through the front, led by Felice.
- Book 2 · Ch 28Infiltration of the Coercer headquarters
Felice, disguised as Lady Phyllis-Morigel, and her saboteurs coerce their way through the Guild keep, killing a Tanu woman, and reach the torc factory doors.
- Book 2 · Ch 28Ambush at the torc factory
Felice melts the doors and the Host of Nontusvel ambushes the party. Most saboteurs die; Felice is subdued by the combined Host; Amerie, Burke and Basil are captured.
- Book 2 · Ch 34Basil's vision of the strange woman
In the dungeon, Basil sees a bizarre woman who wraps him, Amerie and Burke in a life-giving membrane and promises their gray torcs will be gone.
- Book 2 · Ch 38Brede instructs the humans
Brede leads Basil, Burke and Amerie to Elizabeth's room, assigns their tasks, tells them to stay until dawn, and vanishes.
- Book 2 · Ch 41Elizabeth wakes after the Mêlée
Elizabeth emerges from her fire cocoon, learns of the exotic woman's message, sees the flooded ruin of Muriah, and prepares to meet the survivors.
- Book 2 · Ch 41Survivors arrive at Hidden Springs Canyon
Months later, in June, Elizabeth's party arrives at the village, and the residents excitedly prepare to greet her.
- Book 3 · Ch 6Inspection of Black Crag Lodge
Elizabeth and friends lunch at the chalet; Elizabeth approves it as her retreat, with Creyn staying. Basil, Burke and Amerie say farewell and leave for Hidden Springs.
- Book 3 · Ch 6Elizabeth reveals Felice is alive
Elizabeth tells Amerie that Felice survived and describes her torture by Culluket, her psychosis and her calls to him.
- Book 3 · Ch 6Elizabeth's confession
Amerie hears Elizabeth's confession of pride, hubris and despair, and absolves her.
- Book 3 · Ch 33Return to Hidden Springs
Burke, Basil, Amerie and the thirty Bastards arrive to a joyful welcome, with a feast and Mass of Thanksgiving. Kawai welcomes Amerie home and she reunites with her cat Dejah.
- Book 3 · Ch 35Felice appears to Amerie
At dawn Felice, claiming to be cured, appears in the Hidden Springs chapel during Mass and asks Amerie to come with her; Amerie refuses, citing her vow.
- Book 3 · Ch 35Amerie refuses Felice and is killed
Felice begs Amerie to leave with her. When Amerie refuses, Felice seizes her with psychic force, burns her and stops her heart, then demands she choose her. Amerie dies during a Mass, telling Felice mentally that she loves her.
- Book 3 · Ch 36Elizabeth warns Aiken that Felice is loose
Elizabeth farspeaks Aiken that Felice escaped and killed Amerie, urging him to abort the Quest and hide Culluket. Aiken refuses, curses her, and proceeds after scans suggest Felice is far from Mulhacén.
- Book 4 · Ch 5Friar Anatoly bursts into the conference
Brother Anatoly evades the retainers and barges into the salon. Minanonn freezes everyone, and Anatoly announces that Amerie Roccaro sent him as Elizabeth's spiritual adviser. Elizabeth lets him go, and he leaves.